installing 5.1 on sunblade 100

[richard at uclinux.net]

> richard at uclinux.net wrote:
> > Good eveing (o;
> > 
> > Hope there are some Sparc users out there (o;
> > 
> > 
> > All my friends convinced me to try FreeBSD 5.1 on my Sunblade 100...
> > 
> > After I could manage to finally boot from CDROM it just hangs after
> > trying to mount rootfs "ufs:/dev/md0"...
> > 
> > Last messages:
> > 
> > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0
> > Invalid time in real time clock.
> > Check and reset the date immediately!
> 
> I had this problem too, and tmm@ has a fix for this.  It's not committed
> yet, but hopefully will be soon.  I'm attaching the patch to this mail.
> 

Thanx (o;

But a diff doesn't help me at all right now...

Tried now with 5.0 and it complains about:

    "ad0: WRITE command timeout"

looks like the same as in Sparc Linux...


Is there an option like:


    boot ide=nodma ?


best regards
rick

(really curious now how freebsd performs on a Sun ;o)